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Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your outlook) work
doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Apart from the novelist holed away
with his manuscript, most jobs require that we interact with
other people on a daily basis.

This can be great; collaboration often boosts both creativity and
performance. But on the flip side, coworkers can slow us down, at
least according to a recent productivity study by task management
platform Taskworld.

The study, which surveyed 1,000 U.S. adults age 18 or over, found
that 50 percent of the workforce believes their coworkers'
productivity directly impacts their own. And slacking
employees can have a domino effect -- nearly half of
respondents (48 percent) blame deadline missing coworkers for
corresponding decreases in their own productivity.

Why? Chronic deadline-missers aren't just frittering away their
own time: Nineteen percent of respondents reported that they
spend one to three additional hours per week nagging coworkers to
get their work done (or, in survey speak, "following up on the
status of projects and tasks"), while a whopping 75 percent
report frequently waiting on coworkers to complete a task.